Jonathan
is appearing in a J.B. Priestley plan called "Eden End" with the
English Touring Theatre this summer. Check out -- www.ett.org.uk/productions/66/eden-end
Jonthan plays a character called Geoffrey Farrant in the production
which is now touring on a limited run; Brighton (Jun 28-Jul2),
Richmond (Jul 5-9), Oxford (Jul 12-16), and Cambridge (Jul 19-23).

Thank you for your
continued support
and please tell your friends.

More information about Eden End plus reviews.
As
ever, thanks to Meg for the heads up.

Locked has
partnered with www.FilmBaby.com to make the Locked DVD available to the
(international) public. The DVD includes many special features
including
behind the scene interviews with the actors, the award winning short
film
love Francesca, surround sound, and more!

Happy New Year! I am back
in London right
now. I returned from California in May, but have just been back
in
the States for a few weeks shooting in very interesting independent
movie.
I play an English hitman in 1930's mid west.... We shot in December in
rural Iowa, just in time for those appalling ice storms- perfect for
night
shoots. One time it got so cold the camera froze- literally. The movie
was provisionally entitled "Upon Midnight"... In the meantime it was a
quiet autumn-I did a short film and an episode of UK cop show
called
"New Tricks" adding to my already extensive repertoire of slightly
dubious
suspects. I can, of course, not tell you if I did it!

SPECIAL
NOTICE

Jericho
II: The Hollow Men
will air on Channel 13 (NYC) on Sunday, Sept. 2, 9:00 PM.
The program repeats on Thursday, Sept. 6, at 2:00 AM.

The Prince
and Me II: The
Royal Wedding will air on ABC Family Channel (cable) on
Saturday,
Sept. 1, at 5:00 PM. Thanks
Meg

BBC RADIO 4 Monday 13 August
2007

Book Of The Week – A Late
Dinner Ep
1/5Monday 13 to Friday 17
August 9.45-10.00am BBC RADIO 4

The title of Paul Richardson's
book refers
to the Spanish tradition of eating late, long after the rest of Europe
has eaten.

"We all went out for a late
dinner. I had
never before eaten supper at midnight and found the idea madly
decadent.
We ended up at the fishing dock where canteen-like restaurants dished
up
platters of seafood for the crowds that came in, ravenous after a day
on
the beach..."

This student experience
spurred food writer
Richardson on to investigate aspects of Spanish eating, the old and the
revolutionary new. Five extracts from his new book, read by Jonathan
Firth,
describe the journeys he made around Spain in order to meet the
guardians
of such a vibrant food tradition.

Reader/Jonathan Firth, Producer/Duncan
Minshull

BBC Radio 4 Publicity

SPECIAL NOTICE

Mystery! (PBS USA)
week of 10 June
2007Jericho: The
Hollow MenA serial killer, who
targets courting
couples, is on the loose in London just as great smog descends on the
capital,
shutting the entire city down.

11
January 2007: Look for Jonathan in the new BBC Two docudrama, Nuclear
Secrets, beginning Monday 15 January 2007. He will be featured in
the
second episode, playing a German scientist working on the Manhattan
Project.
This program may be aired on the Discovery Channel, but the schedule
has
not been finalized.In the SF Bay
Area, look
for the episode of Cadfael featuring Jon (The Leper of St.Giles). Check
your local listings, this might be playing in your area too.

Cadfael :
Leper of Saint
GilesMonday,
January 15, 8:00pmA baron
disappears the
day before his pre-arranged marriage.

other
airings;Thursday,
January 18,
1:00amSunday,
January 21, 11:00pm

20 May 2006:
War and Peace
Tolstoy's epic novel, which covers fifteen years in the lives of four
Russian
aristocratic families during and after the Napoleonic War. Starring
Emily
Mortimer, Jonathan Firth, Gerard Murphy, Leo McKern and Nicola Pagett,
it is dramatised by Mike Walker and Marcy Kahan. The directors are
Janet Whitaker
and Eoin O'Callaghan.Monday to
Friday at 10am,
9pm and 2amhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/drama/index.shtml

I wasn't
in London for either of the terrorist attacks, and fortunately I do not
know anyone who was hurt. I was in Prague filming a sequel to a movie
called
"the prince and me", entitled, imaginatively, "prince and me 2".

Best
wishesJ

16 May
2005: an email from Jon;

Hi,

It's
been a long time since I said hello, I hope allis going
well for all of you.

I was
filming an episode of a new detective series called Jericho
starring Robert Lindsay. I had most of my scenes with James Wilby, who
I worked with before on An Ideal Husband. Its set in the 50s, and I
play
a cinema projectionist who is traumatised by his experiences of the
war.
An enjoyable part, and I hope a good piece.

Best
wishes

Jonathan

The Saturday
Play BBC Radio 4Saturday
2 April 14:30-15:30

September
Tide By Daphne
du Maurier, adapted by Moya O'Shea

When
Stella's daughter comes home to visit she brings her new husband with
her.
There are a few surprises in store, especially as this is the first
time
mother and son-in-law have met.

The Saturday
Play is the home of thrillers, mysteries, love stories and detective
fiction,
as well as an occasional special series. A real treat for lovers of a
good
story well told.

23
March 2005: In The Beginning willbe
broadcast
on the Hallmark Channel (US) on Sunday 26 March 2005 starting at 7pm.
In
The Beginning is a powerfully rendered compilation of the most enduring
stories from the Old Testament -- those of the Hebrew patriarch Abraham
and his lineage.

12 March
2005: Jonathan Firth is featured in the current Classic
Serial airiing on BBC Radio 4 Saturdays and Sundays. Initial
broadcast
is Sunday repeating the following Saturday. The last p art of the drama
airs tomorrow 13 March 2005

8 January
2005: Jonathan Firth is featured in a three part drama in BBC Radio 4's
Classic Serial Lucinda Brayford. Part 1 aired 2 January and was
repeated
today. You can listen again to the drama at the Classic Serial
site.
Please note you can get a better recording of part 1 by clicking on the
"Listen to Sunday edition" link. Go to Radio
page for more info

5 January
2005: Pompeii the Last Day to be broadcast on US cable channel
Discovery
Channel. Please chech your local listings for times and and dates.

15 November
2004: Book
at Bedtime on Tuesday (11/16) features Jonathan Firth reading
Varengville;
the story of a young boy must get out of the house and on one of his
cycling
trips he befriends a wise old painter. Book at Bedtime is on BBC Radio
4 and airs 10:45p-11p

7 September
2004: Jonathan Firth has won the CFT Excellence Award for Best Actor in
a Motion Picture for Luther. Details to follow.

30 July
2004: Jon recorded a short story by William Boyd called 'Varengville
for
Radio 4 on the 19th July.

He is
going to record 2 stories for a Radio 4 series called 'Hearts of Oak'
the
stories are called 'Youth' and 'I Have Been Drowned'. They are
being
directed by Karen Rose from a company called Sweettalk for BBC Radio 4.

29
June 2004: Jonathan Firth has been nominated by the Intl Society for
Excellence
in Christian Film & Television for the CFT Excellence Award for
Best
Actor in a Motion Picture for his performance in Luther.

Details
of the CFT Excellence awards and the International Society for
Excellence
in Christian Film & Television can be found at ; http://www.cftexcellence.net

2003
CFT Excellence Awards Ceremony is scheduled to be be held in W.
Chicago,
IL USA on October 9th, 2004

Congratulations
Jon.

6 June
2004: Jonathan Firth will be in BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play First
Born on Monday 7 June 2004 2.15-3.00pm

31 May
2004: Jonathan Firth will be a featured cast member in the BBC Radio 4
Classic Serial drama Good
Behaviour.
The programme will air Sunday 13 June 2004 3.00-4.00pm

8 April
2004: Listen to digital archived files of The
Parasites witih RealOne player (the urls
can
be found here). Jonathan plays Niall
Delaney, one of three siblings which the story revolves around. More
details here.

18 March
2004: Jonathan news
- keep a look out on BBC Radio 4 for The
Parasites.
Jonathan plays Niall Delaney, one of three siblings which the story
revolves
around. More details here.

Available on
audio tape and
cd; Shadows of Glory and Sepulcher by
James
Herbert. Please see details below.

Synopsis A
conflict of evils
There is a house called Neath that holds a dark and terrible
secret.....In
that house there is a psychic called Kline who is part of its
secret.....The
Keeper is guardian of the house, of the psychic, and of the
secret.....But
now an outsider must protect them from a terrible danger.....Halloran
will
combat men who thrive on physical corruption; he will find love of a
perverse
nature; he will confront his soul's own darkness.....And eventually he
will discover the horrific and awesome secret of the Sepulchre...
REMEMBER
WITH FEAR

08/31/03
Added some stills from Henry
VIthanks AndralaIn case
you missed them last year, here is the photoshoot
Jon did to promote Victoria and Albert in September 2002

08/12/03
The official site for Luther is now up, you can click here
to reach the site. You will need Macromedia to play the page. You
can watch/download the trailer here
Thanks Murph

07/29/03
From the BBC One presspack for their Autumn 2003 programs;

Pompeii
- The Last Day follows the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79 and
brings
to life this remarkable 24-hour period.Using
historical and forensic evidence to re-enact an account of this last
day,
the programme explores the horrific impact of the natural disaster on
the
city through its people.

AT THE
age of 25, William Fiennes was struck down by a mysterious debilitating
illness. Convalescing in a hotel, he discovered a copy of Paul
Gallico's
children's story, The Snow Goose. Re-reading the fable ignited an
interest
in birds, while its themes chimed with his intense longing for home and
a simultaneous desire for escape.

He resolved,
once better, to follow the migration of the snow geese from their
winter
residence on the Gulf coast of America to their breeding ground in the
Arctic, 2,000 miles away. This resulting book belongs to the genre of
travel
writing pioneered by Bruce Chatwin: part scientific study, part
adventure
story, part biography and part meditation. While it would be
understandable
for an author to choose migration as a subject more for its thematic
potency
than because of an interest in natural history, Fiennes seems to be
fascinated
by the vast flock that he is following.

Interesting
as his musings undoubtedly are on the human nesting instinct, for
example,
and the tension between desire for adventure and for familiarity it is
to the book's credit that he does not give his inner journey more
weight
than that of the birds above his head. Fiennes (yes, he is related to
Ralph
and Joseph) is an astute and highly engaging writer with great
descriptive
powers.

Occasionally,
his poeticism tilts towards preciousness, but this lyricism is well
suited
to his awesome, solitary experiences: the sight of a quarter of a
million
geese in the air; the northern lights and the endless Canadian
wilderness.
This audiobook has been thoughtfully abridged, and Firth (and yes, he
is
Colin's brother) reads with precision and assurance.

12/20/02
- Jonathan has recorded an audio book for BBC Audio Books - The Dark
Horse
by Marcus Sedgwick for possible release early 2003.

No release
date as of yet for Luther.

10/31/02
- Jonathan was in the Afternoon Play today titled Double Vision.
Jonathan
played the twin brother of a widowed doctor. Her friends and family
suspect
the worse of this stranger. You can listen to the play on the Radio 4
site
until 11/01/02 9am EST

10/30/02
- Jonathan news : he's just finished recording a radio play called
Double
Vision the part of Simon Walton, dir Eoin O'Callaghan prod co.
Pacificus
Productions for Radio 4. We do not have a [broadcast] date [yet].

09/20/02
- Jonathan kindly answered some questions about his character in the
upcomng
film Luther (starring Joseph Fiennes). The beginnings of a Luther
page can be found here

Read
Jonathan's reply here below

Date:
Thursday, September 19, 2002 3:17 pmFrom:
Jonathan Firth

Hi Mickie.
Thank you for your questions.

About
Aleander-

Although
Aleandro (or Aleander as he is called in the film) is Luther's opponent
and therefor by default the "bad guy", the film is more sophisticated
than
a simple contest between heroes and villains. As a highly
intelligent
and educated man he can see the truth behind many of Luther's
criticisms
of the church and recognises the need for reform, but as a loyal
Catholic
he cannot consent to the damage being done by Luther's teaching.
He is confident to the point of arrogance and this leads him to
seriously
underestimate Luther, thinking that he is simply dealing with an
illiterate
monk. Aleander quickly comes to recognise the threat Luther poses to
his
own ambitions, and from there (at least from Aleander's point of view)
the contest becomes personal. They come face to face at the Diet of
Worms
where much of the dialogue comes from the original transcripts of
the trial.

Aleander
is not originally a church man, he is an academic who is made a
cardinal,
which was quite common at that time. I was therefor not tonsured for
the
role but had the long hair typical of the period together with an
extraordinary array of headwear. You can say what you like about the
middle
ages, they certainly knew about hats!

With
regards to the music, the only singing in the movie is done by monks
and
priests etc. during religious services and no, I don't take part!

It was
interesting after "Albert" to be playing a real person again, although
there was nothing like the amount of background material available as
there
was then. This though gave me a degree of freedom that I didn't have
with
Albert -there was for example no pressure to make myself closely
resemble
Aleander. It was also fascinating to learn about one of the most
crucial
periods in history. I already knew quite a lot about the Renaissance as
I had done art history at school, but I knew very little about the
Reformation.

Hope
this is of some interest, Mickie. Thanks once again for the tremendous
amount of work you have put into the site. I'm really very flattered by
it and have found it quite useful , when discovering U.S tx dates for
example.Hope
you're well.

-- John

09/06/02
-
**Alert** Jonathan
is starring in a dramatisation of "New Grub Street" by George
Gissing.
This is being serialised in three parts and being broadcast as BBC
Radio
Four's classic serial. The first episode is being broadcast on
Sunday
8th September at 3pm and will be repeated the following Saturday at
9pm.
Harold Pinter is the narrator and Jonathan Cake and Emilia Fox are also
starring. (update
courtesy of Barbara T. and Gill)

BBC
Radio 4 listingSunday
8 September

New Grub
Street, Part 1

By George
Gissing, dramatised in three parts by Tony Ramsay

Harold
Pinter narrates the story of a group of struggling writers, whose
battles
between artistic integrity and the dictates of the market place, are
fought
out in pokey garrets or the Reading Room of the British Museum in the
1880s.

04/02/02
- Inspector Lynley series begins Monday 8 April 2002 on BBC One TV. One
of the episodes from this series is A
Payment in Blood. Please keep an visit this url
for episode information

03/29/02
- Added interview with Jonathan for V&A in the UK, please click on
this link.
Also added info for A
Payment in Blood

03/27/02
- Jonathan [will be] filming "Luther" opposite Joseph Fiennes in
Germany.
It's a feature film produced by a German production company prod.
Bridget
Roche dir. Erick Till filming in Italy from the 9th - 23 May and later
3 weeks in Germany 31 May - 5th July.

03/01/02
- Programing note (from A&E):VICTORIA
& ALBERT will be telecast from Monday March 11 through Thursday
March
14 in the A&E Classroom time slot
(7AM E/P, 6AM Central), this compelling and romantic miniseries will be
telecast, 1 hour per day. The drama will be shown without
commercials
and with closed captioning for the hearing impaired. The four-hour
special
can be purchased in VHS and DVD formats for $39.95 plus shipping per
set.

02/09/02
- **Alert** Jonathan
is cast in the Radio 4 presentation of The Weather in the Streets (The
Classic Serial series) beginningSun
10 Feb, 15:00 - 16:00 60 mins

The live
feed link for Radio 4 is:http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/live_feed.html

Synopsis
- The Weather in the Streets Rosamond
Lehmann's novel, dramatised by Hattie Naylor. Olivia is living a
faintly
bohemian life in London in the early thirties. When she meets up again
with Rollo, handsome and unhappily married, they embark on a passionate
and secret affair. With Eve Best, Jonathan Firth, Diana Quick, Jenny
Coverack,
Dee Sadler, Ben Tinniswood, Jacqueline Tong, Rachel Lewis, Paul
Dodgson,
Joshua Boyden and Olivia Crook. Director Sara Davies.

Here
is an excerpt from an email from Jonathan regarding his latest project
and his good wishes to you his fans

I have
just completed work on a 90 min film for television (Bait) to be
screened on ITV however, it will be some time before we
receive
a air date. It was directed by Nicholas Renton who I worked
with before on 'Far from the Madding Crowd' and features John
Hurt,
Sheila Hancock & Angeline Ball. It was a contemporary
psychological
thriller about a middle aged man obsessed with finding his missing
daughter.

With
regards to 'Payment in Blood' it was a slightly more conventional
detective genre piece, country house murder mystery, in which I am the
prime suspect!! You're right in thinking Julian
Wadham
is in it along with Ronald Pickup who played my father in 'Henry IV'.
If
you're particularly sharp eyed you may recognize the location
from
'Victoria & Albert'. Again it will be some time before
we know when it will air as they are still filming the final ep.

That
about sums up my recent activity!

Best
wishes,Jonathan 11/27/01

9/25/01:
Jonathan is currently filming an episode of Inspector Lynley. It stars
Nat Parker as Inspector Lynley. You might remember that Jonathan and
Nat
played in FFTMC together. The character Jonathan is playing: Rhys
Davies
Jones in "Payment in Blood" dir Kim Flitcroft. He is filming till the
end
of October. Link to Payment
in Blood page.

For articles
of Victoria & Albert, please follow this link.
Victoria & Albert will have its US premiere on A&E 7th &
9th
October.

9/15/01:
Jon interview from OK!
magazine added (not all pictures are included, could not get a
decent
scan of the small ones)

MUCH
hyped and trailed, the BBC Drama department’s contribution to the
centenary
of : Queen Victoria's death was supposed to be a £5 million
all-star,
bodice-ripping, two-part : costume drama about the sexual magnetism
between
Victoria and Albert. Sex and the Saxe-Coburgs, one might call it.

The production,
boasted the producers,” would peep through her bedroom door” and show
plenty
of “lace and garter.” Alas, it was scheduled for the spring, but never
saw the light of day. Now, I gather, we should be seeing it on August
Bank
Holiday weekend. But, the BBC, which refuses to confirm : the new date,
is now saying emphatically that “there’s no : bonking” .Why the delay
and
coyness? “It was never actually announced for the spring,” says a BBC
apparatchik.
“Maybe there were problems with it being late or with scheduling, but
please
don't say it’s going out over the Bank Holiday. Schedules get changed
at:
the last minute, and we can’t confirm anything until a fortnight
before.”
All of which seems an odd way to treat a flagship programme with
£5
million from the licence payer.

Victoria
Hamilton and Jonathan Firth star in the series as Queen and
consort,
and there’s a cameo: a minute from the likes of Sir Nigel Hawthorne,
Dame
Diana Rigg, Sir Peter Ustinov and David Suchet.

Another
BBC drama, Station Jim - also to be shown in the autumn - will feature
Prunella Scales as Queen Victoria. By strange chance, Hamilton and
Scales
will be teaming up on stage in: September at the New Ambassador’s in
the
West End for a revival of Peter Nicholls’ A Day in the Death of Joe
Egg.
[ed note - Wit